 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...but that which he endeavoured, he seldom failed of performing. His scenes exhibit not much of humour, , the powers of heaven and earth, 41 To fit a bed...huge birth ! CHO. Contend the powers . . . THYE. Prou the contest of smartness is never intermitted; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate... | |
 | English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...but that which he endeavoured, he seldom failed of performing. His scenes exhibit not much of humour, I, + the contest of smartness is never intermitted; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...but that which he endeavoured, he seldom failed of performing. His scenes exhibit not much of humour, that ever I knewe ! Be mery and glad, be no more...case is chaungèd newe ; For it were ruthe that for y ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 418 pages
...but that which he endeavoured, he seldom failed of performing. His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion : his personages are a kind of...intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 534 pages
...especially, who are accustomed to a better regulated and more * Dr. Johnson says of him, in his Life, that " his personages " are a kind of intellectual Gladiators; every sentence is to ward, " or to strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; tiis " wk is a meteor, playing to and fro,... | |
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His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion : his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators; every sentence is to ward or strike; the contest of smartness is never intermitted; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate... 
